Four Island

This post was originally posted in a page by itself, and is being moved here as an attempt to move everything to the main blog.

HTML Validator

When I was first learning HTML, I leart it all using a book called "HTML Quickstart Guide 4th Editon" (by Elizabeth Castro), which, for some reason, stated differently from the other editons (I know this because it said about previous editons in the book, and I also have acquired HTML Quickstart Guide 5th Editon a couple of years ago) that the <!DOCTYPE> was a useless tag that had no purpose other than telling HTML Validators what DTD to use.

Because I learnt HTML this way, the non-usage of the <!DOCTYPE> tag grew into a habit, and aside from just being hard to change that habit, I don't want to have to fallback from my anti-<!DOCTYPE> ways. I make a big fuss about not using the <!DOCTYPE> tag, and there's nothing you can really do about it.

Go try it now. This link goes to the Validator Results for the Home Page of Four Island.comp. Go to it. Notice that it has only one error. Look closer and notice that that one error is the lack of the <!DOCTYPE> tag. Click on the "Doctype" drop-down menu, choose "HTML 4.01 Transitional", and click "Revalidate". Notice how there are no errors now. See?

So why not join me? Please add one (or more) of these images to your website/blog/whatever. Please show that you do not believe in the evil <!DOCTYPE> tag.

• No-!Doc Favicon
• No <!DOCTYPE> Userbar
• Wikipedia Userbox! Use {{User:Hatkirby/Userboxes/No_Doctype}}.